Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues Meta And OpenAI About Copyright For AI Development

Comedian Sarah Silverman sued Meta and OpenAI for copyright (photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Comedian from the United States (US) Sarah Silverman is reported to have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta Platform Inc. and OpenAI for alleged use of content without permission to train her AI language model.

Not only Sarah Silverman, it turns out that two other writers, namely Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, also filed the same lawsuit at the San Francisco Federal Court on Friday, July 7.

The three figures accuse Facebook's parent company Meta and ChatGPT creator OpenAI of using copyrighted material, without permission to develop a large language model of its artificial intelligence technology.

According to the plaintiff, these two companies collected data obtained illegally from their books. Then, ChatGPT summarizes the contents of the paid book.

The lawsuit underscores the legal risks faced by chat bot developers when using a collection of copyrighted materials to create applications that provide realistic responses to user requests.

"The summary is wrong in some details" but still shows that ChatGPT "maintains knowledge of certain works in the training dataset," the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit asks for unspecified compensation for copyright ownership whose work is allegedly violated.

According to Reuters, Meta and OpenAI, the two largest tech companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday.